In such a scenario, the Onion domain will definitely be useful for TPB to stay alive. If the sale happens, there are concerns that there could be possible policy changes by Ethos Capital, which would mean throwing the infamous TPB on copyright grounds. Contents 1 Archive and Index 2 Commerce 3 Communications 3.1 Messaging 3. Defunct services are marked as well as services with known only with deprecated v2 addresses are marked. org domains also currently controls The Pirate Bay’s. This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services) 1 accessible through the Tor anonymity network. The reason behind the change could be that the Internet Society (ISOC) is in the process of selling the Public Interest Registry (PIR) to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital. There is no official announcement from TPB’s operators on the Onion domain switch nor the reason for the change, However, if you hover over the ‘Tor’ link on the site, it displays the new onion domain address. onion is a special-use top-level domain suffix designating an anonymous onion service reachable via the Tor network This makes both the information provider and the person accessing the information more difficult to trace By residing inside the Tor network, TPB would get a better hiding place and extra security against the raids and lawsuits
The switch in the domain name was reported to TorrentFreak after owners of proxy Pirate Bay sites noticed an unusually extended downtime on the old domain for several hours